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BY ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LV RRLL G'DR, F YR, N. Y., SGNR "i" 3. BLANCHARD' CG., 0F

. NEW YORK, N. Y.

FABTENING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

Application led March 19, 1908. Serial No. 421,997.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALVIN CARROLL GOD- DARD, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of the city of New York, Long Island city, borouh of Queens, in the county of Queens an State of New York, have inventeda new and Im roved Fastening Device, of which the folllowing is a full,clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to metallic door casings, base boards, chair railsand the like,

and its object is to provide a new and improved fastening device forconveniently and securely fastening the metallic parts in positionwithout the use of screws, nails and the like and without showing thefastening means exteriorly. Y

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations ofthe same, which will be more fully described hereinafter and thenpointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings forming a art of this specification, in whichsimilar c aracters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all theviews.

Figure 1 is a sectional lan view of the im rovement, applied to t e trimof a metal ic door casing; Fig. 2 is a sectional face view of theimprovement, on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 Fig. 3 is a similar view of thesame, showing the parts disengaged; Fig. 4 is a sectional plan view ofthe improvement, showing the parts partly engaged', Fig. 5 is atransverse section of the improvement applied to a base board; and Fig.6 is a transverse section of the improvement applied to a chair rail.

Each of the trims A for the door casing B, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and4, is formed of a single piece of sheet metal bent into the de siredcross sectional form and terminating at the sides in inwardly extendingflanges A', A", ada ted to be engaged b the offset ends C', D of)horizontally disposeclfastenin members C, D, of which the member C is edto the casing B, while the other fastening member D is provided with anelongated slot D, through which extends screws, rivets or the like E,held on the casing B, so that the member D is free to slide hor1zontallyin the direction of its len th and transversel of the fastening membersC and D are preferably arranged one alon side the other and two or moresuch sets of astening members may be used, according to the len th ofthe trim or other article. The non-o set terminal Ds of the slidablemember D is approximatel flush with the terminal of the offset end whenplacing the trim A in position (see Fi s. 3 and 4) that is, sliding theflange A2 un er the offset end D andI engaging the inner edge of theflange A with the terminal D. Now by the operator pushing the trimsidewise in the direction of the arrow a the flan e A slides under theoffset end C of the fixe fastening member C, and at the same time theflange A pushes the slidable fastening member along so that the offsetend D remains in engagement with the flan e A3 and the trim is astenedin place by the anges A', A2 bein enga ed b the offset ends C', D of thefixe and s idab e fastening members C and D.

In order to fasten a metallic base Iboard F in position on the wall G,as shown in Fi 5, or a chair rail H to the wall I, use is ma e of thefixed and slidable fastening members C and D, engaging flanges F', F andH', H2 on the said base board F and chair rail H, the same as abovedescribed in reference to the door casing trim, the only differencebeing that the fastenin members C and D are now disposed verticalIy andthe member D slides downward when pushing the base board F or the chairrail H in place.

The fastening members C and D are held on furring strips G and I formingpart of the walls G and I.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. A fastenin device for base boards, trims and like articles, havinginterior flanges, comprising a fixed fastenin member and a slidingfastening member, t e fixed member enga ing one flange and the latterengaging the s idmg member and pushing the same into engagement with theother flange.

2. In combination, a metallic base board, trim and like article, havingflan es extending towards each other, a fixe fastening member, and aslidable fastening member, one of thesaid flanges passin under thefxedmember and engagmg the sli able member to shift the latter intoengagement with the other flange.

3. A fastening for metallic base boards,

trims and like articles, comprising e. fixed n testimony whereof I havesigned my member having an oi'set end, and e shdable neme to thisspecification in the presence of member having an ofset end, the o'setends two subscribin witnesses.

of the said members projecting outwardly ALVI CARROLL GODDARD 5 andadapted to engage o posite and inwardly Witnesses:

projecting flanges on t e article to be fas- THEO. G. Hos'rER,

tened. Evmmn B. MARSHALL.

